Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction & Richard & Judy pick. From the author of the acclaimed Year of Wonders & People of the Book a historical novel & love story set during a time of catastrophe on the front lines of the American Civil War. Set during the American Civil War March tells the story of John March known to us as the father away from his family of girls in Little Women Louisa May Alcotts classic American novel. In Brookss telling March emerges as an abolitionist & idealistic chaplain on the front lines of a war that tests his faith in himself & in the Union cause when he learns that his side too is capable of barbarism & racism. As he recovers from a near-fatal illness in a Washington hospital he must reassemble the shards of his shattered mind & body & find a way to reconnect with a wife & daughters who have no idea of the ordeals he has been through. As Alcott drew on her real-life sisters in shaping the characters of her little women so Brooks turned to the journals & letters of Bronson Alcott Louisa Mays father an idealistic educator animal rights exponent & abolitionist who was a friend & confidante of Ralph Waldo Emerson & Henry David Thoreau. The story spans the vibrant intellectual world of Concord & the sensuous antebellum South through to the first year of the Civil War as the North reels under a series of unexpected defeats. Like her bestselling Year of Wonders March follows an unconventional love story. It explores the passions between a man & a woman the tenderness of parent & child & the life-changing power of an ardently held belief. ...

Hard Was The Struggle" explores the women's movement in Britain from the passing of the Marriage & Divorce Act in 1857 to women attaining the vote in 1928. Published to commemorate the centenary of the death of the suffragette Emily Wilding Davison who threw herself under King George V's horse during the Derby & thus sustained fatal injuries this fascinating book uses anecdotes & accounts by both famous & hitherto lesser known suffragettes & suffragists to explore how the voice of women came to be heard throughout the land in the pursuit of equal votes for females. Using diary extracts & letters the main protagonists of the women's movement are brought back to life as Lucinda Dickens Hawksley explores how they were portrayed in literature & art as well as the media reports of the day." ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

Whilst we might choose our words carefully we rarely think about the origins behind the many phrases place names & expressions we use everyday. Yet behind these words lies a fascinating story steeped in the weird & wonderful history & traditions of everyday life. From hundreds of commonplace & more quirky terms to names of streets cities & public houses this fascinating & fun book answers the questions youve always had about the wonderful language we all use yet seldom think about. So if its all Greek to you & seems like hocus pocus for Petes sake dont be left on tenderhooks have a gander at this idiosyncractic tome. Make no bones about it
- its the bees knees!
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When Jamie moves to Dinosaur Cove with his father hes looking forward to doing some fossil hunting on the beach. But when he & his friend Tom discover a forgotten cave with fossilised dinosaur footprints it takes them to another world.. .a world of dinosaurs. Jamie & Tom discover some fresh dinosaur footprints & decide to do some tracking. It looks as if a large herd are moving towards the river but as the boys approach the marshy area they notice some smaller footprints going a different way. They discover a baby Ankylosaurus in the mud
- its thrashing around & has sunk up to its middle. The baby dino is well & truly stuck. The boys have to find a way of saving the little Ankylosaurus. But when its mother appears will she realize theyre trying to help? Or will she come at them with her huge clubbed tail?
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During the first uncertain years of the Northern Ireland peace process three simultaneous terrorist attacks in Belfast Dublin & London shatter the hope that the bloodshed is finally over. The perpetrators are a new terror group called the Ulster Freedom Brigade. & they have one goal: to destroy the peace process. Michael Osbourne hero of THE MARK OF THE ASSASSIN has quit the CIA bitter & disillusioned. But when the President chooses his father-in-law to be the next American ambassador to Britain Osbourne is drawn into battle with some of the most ruthless & violent men on earth.. . ...

This is a controversial new investigation in the 1984 Miners strike & how it changed Modern Britain. The Miners strike was a dividing line in Modern British history. Before 1984 Britain was an industrial nation reborn from the ashes of the Second World War by Clement Atlees vision of a welfare state. Most of the great industries were nationalized & the trade unions was one of the major forces in the l&. After the strike which ended with humiliating defeat in March 1985 Thatchers Britain was born. In March 1984 the leader of the Miners Union Arthur Scargill led his members out of the pits without a ballot to protest at planned pit closures; they would spend the next 13 months facing the utmost deprivations as they fought to keep their jobs. On picket lines the miners faced harassment & the police which culminated in the violent Battle of Orgreave. Meanwhile Thatchers government feared that Britain was on the verge of a civil war. It was a struggle of attrition that neither side could dare lose. Twenty five years after the strike the debate is still controversial. Marching to the Faultline" tells the full story of the strike from confidential cabinet meetings at Downing Street to back room negotiations & life on the picket line. The book draws on previously unseen sources from interviews with the major figures private archives & documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act to set the record straight." ...

This book is all about creating beautiful & delicious food...without stress & without fuss. Marco Pierre White serves up more than 100 recipes & shows the home cook how to get big flavours from store-cupboard ingredients. The book has sections for starters shellfish fish meat poultry desserts & Marco uses bottles jars & packets to make divine sauces syrups & dressings. Olive oil honey mustard soy sauce vinegar Hellmanns Heinz & Knorr
- they are all on the lists of ingredients here. & the three main ingredients of Marco Made Easy are: Simple Fast & Fun. Itll take longer to wash the dishes he says than it will to make them. Tomato ketchup helps to make Salmon Ketchup; that bottle of Lea & Perrins brings life to the sauce for peppered steak; & beef casserole is transformed by a can (or two) of Guinness mixed with a carton of prune juice. Desserts too require little skill. Jamaican Mess made with bananas shop-bought custard & Carnation caramel sauce
- is creamy rich & swee. Who could say no? Beautiful photographs of each stunning dish enable the reader to copy the master chefs presentation: you dont need to be an artist. As Marco says of this revolutionary cook book Its for anyone who loves food but hates aggro.

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This book is all about creating beautiful & delicious food...without stress & without fuss. Marco Pierre White serves up more than 100 recipes & shows the home cook how to get big flavours from store-cupboard ingredients. The book has sections for starters shellfish fish meat poultry desserts & Marco uses bottles jars & packets to make divine sauces syrups & dressings. Olive oil honey mustard soy sauce vinegar Hellmanns Heinz & Knorr
- they are all on the lists of ingredients here. & the three main ingredients of Marco Made Easy are: Simple Fast & Fun. Itll take longer to wash the dishes he says than it will to make them. Tomato ketchup helps to make Salmon Ketchup; that bottle of Lea & Perrins brings life to the sauce for peppered steak; & beef casserole is transformed by a can (or two) of Guinness mixed with a carton of prune juice. Desserts too require little skill. Jamaican Mess made with bananas shop-bought custard & Carnation caramel sauce
- is creamy rich & swee. Who could say no? Beautiful photographs of each stunning dish enable the reader to copy the master chefs presentation: you dont need to be an artist. As Marco says of this revolutionary cook book Its for anyone who loves food but hates aggro.

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In September 1298 the rival Italian republics of Genoa & Venice fought a fierce sea battle at Curzola off the rocky coast of southern Dalmatia. Against the odds the Venetians led by Admiral Andrea Dandolo son of the Doge were defeated. Among the thousands of Venetians captives was one Marco Polo gentleman merchant of Venice & sometime traveller to East Asia. Incarcerated in a Ligurian fastness he told his story to a fellow-prisoner a writer of romances named Rustichello of Pisa. The account of his travels that Marco Polo dictated to Rustichello in captivity
- Il Milione
- would be exceptionally widely read & would stimulate European interest in the East & its riches. Marco Polo: from Venice to Xanadu is Laurence Bergreens thrilling & masterly reconstruction of the life & wanderings of one the great adventurers of world history. Between 1271 & 1275 Marco Polo accompanied his father Niccolo & uncle Maffeo on a journey east from Acre into central Asia along the Silk Route eventually reaching China & the court of the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire Kublai Khan. Entering the service of the Khan he travelled extensively in the Mongol Empire. The three Venetians returned home by sea in 1292-5 calling at Sumatra & southern India before reaching Persia & making the last part of their journey to Venice overl&. Three years later came that fateful encounter with the Genoese fleet in the Adriatic...

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